Teks -- Psalms 10:5 (NET)

10:5 He is secure at all times. He has no regard for your commands; he disdains all his enemies.

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Wesley: Psa 10:5 - Judgments

Thy threatenings denounced against, and punishments inflicted upon sinners.

Wesley: Psa 10:5 - Are far

He doth not regard or fear them: yea he despises them, being confident that he can blow them away with a breath. This is a gesture of contempt or disdain, both in scripture, and other authors.

JFB: Psa 10:5-6

Such is his confidence in the permanence of his way or course of life, that he disregards God's providential government (out of sight, because he will not look, Isa 26:11), sneers at his enemies, and boasts perpetual freedom from evil.

Clarke: Psa 10:5 - His ways are always grievous

His ways are always grievous - Or, He is travailing in pain to bring forth iniquity at all times. He is full of lust, or irregular and unholy desires; he conceives and brings forth sin; and sin being finished, time, place, and opportunity concurring, death is soon brought forth

Clarke: Psa 10:5 - Thy judgments are far above out of his sight

Thy judgments are far above out of his sight - He is so blinded with sin, that he cannot see the operations of God’ s hand

Clarke: Psa 10:5 - He puffeth at them

He puffeth at them - He whistles at them; insults God, and despises men. He overthrows them with his breath; he has only to give orders, and they are destroyed. "Bring me the head of Giaffer,"said an Asiatic despot. The head was immediately brought! No trial, no judge, no jury; but the despot’ s will and caprice.

Calvin: Psa 10:5 - NO PHRASE

There is a great diversity of opinion among interpreters respecting the first clause of this verse. The translators of the Septuagint version, thinking the word יחילו , yachilu, which is in the future tense, derived from the root חלל , chalal, which it is not, have rendered it, his ways are defiled. But it is agreed among the Jewish expositors, that it is derived from the root חול , chol. Many among them, however, take it actively for to put one in fear, or to put one to trouble, as if it had been said, The ways of the ungodly are dreadful to the good, and torment them. ²⁰³ Some also apply the words to God, reading the sentence thus, His ways come, that is to say, have their course, or prosper at all times. This, however, in my judgment, is too forced. But as this word, in other texts of Scripture, means to be prosperous, I am surprised that there should be any difference of opinion among the learned concerning this passage, when immediately, in the next clause, the prophet clearly shows that he is speaking of the prosperous condition of the ungodly, and the continued course of pleasure which intoxicates them. He not only complains of this their prosperity, but from it he aggravates their guilt, in that they take occasion, from the goodness of God, to harden themselves in their wickedness. I would, therefor explain the verse thus: As they enjoy a continued course of prosperity, they dream that God is bound or plighted to them, and hence they put his judgments far from them; and if any man oppose them, they are confident they can immediately put him down, or dash him to pieces with a puff or breath. Now, we understand the simple meaning of the prophet to be, that the ungodly mock God, taking encouragement from his forbearance; as that base tyrant, Dionysius, because he had a prosperous voyage, after having plundered the temple of Proserpine, ²⁰⁴ boasted that God favored the sacrilegious. ²⁰⁵ Hence it is, that they put far from them the judgments of God.

In the opinion of some, these words, On high are thy judgments before him, mean much the same thing as if the prophet had said, God treats them with too much clemency, and spares them; just as he elsewhere complains of their being exempted from the common afflictions of life. But this interpretation does not so well agree with the words; yea, it appears to be unnatural and forced. The judgments of God then are said to be on high to the ungodly, because, presuming upon the great distance of God from them, ²⁰⁶ they promise themselves not only a truce with death during their whole life, but also an everlasting covenant with it. We see how, by procrastinating the evil day, they harden themselves, and become more and more obstinate in evil; ²⁰⁷ yea, persuading themselves that God is shut up in heaven, as if they had nothing to do with him, they strengthen themselves in the hope of escaping unpunished; ²⁰⁸ as we see them, in Isaiah, (Isa 22:13) jesting at the threatenings of the prophets, saying, “Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.” When the prophets, in order to inspire the people with terror, denounced the dreadful vengeance of God, which was ready to be inflicted upon them, these wicked men cried out that it was all whims or idle stories. God therefore bitterly inveighs against them, because, when he called the people to mourning, ashes, and sackcloth, these mockers encouraged them to minstrelsy and feasting; and at length he swears, “As I live, surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die.” The faithful, indeed, lift up their eyes to heaven to behold the judgments of God; and they are not less afraid of them than if they were just ready to fall upon their heads. The ungodly, on the contrary, despise them, and yet, in order not to be disturbed or tormented with the fear or apprehension of them, they would banish them into heaven; just as the Epicureans, although they did not presume avowedly to deny the existence of a God, yet imagined that he is confined to heaven, where he indulges himself in idleness, without taking any concern about what is done here below. ²⁰⁹ From this infatuation flows their presumptuous confidence of which David speaks, by which they assure themselves of being able to destroy, with a puff or blast alone, all who are enemies to them. The word פוח , phuach, which sometimes signifies to ensnare, is here more properly taken for to puff, or to blow out.

TSK: Psa 10:5 - His // thy judgments // he puffeth

His : Gen 6:12; Pro 1:19, Pro 2:13, Pro 2:15; Isa 10:1; Hos 9:9; Rom 3:16

thy judgments : Psa 92:5, Psa 92:6; Pro 15:24, Pro 24:1; Isa 5:12, Isa 26:11, Isa 28:15, Isa 42:25; Hos 14:9

he puffeth : Psa 12:5; Jdg 9:27, Jdg 9:38; 2Sa 5:6; 1Ki 20:10, 1Ki 20:11, 1Ki 20:13

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Poole: Psa 10:5 - His ways are always grievous // Thy judgments // Are far above out of his sight // He puffeth at them

His ways are always grievous his whole course and carriage is vexatious to all that are within his reach, but especially to the poor, who cannot right themselves; and to just and good men, whom he hateth and persecuteth. Or, His ways , i.e. his designs and enterprises, at all times are prosperous, or successful, or do bring forth ; for this verb signifies, as the pains and trouble, so also the success and comfort, of child-bearing, or the bringing forth children, as Psa 29:9 Isa 54:1 Jer 4:31 . And the accomplishment or disappointment of designs is frequently expressed by this metaphor; of which see 2Ki 19:23 Psa 7:14 Isa 59:4 , &c. And this sense seems best to suit with the context.

Thy judgments either,

1. Thy laws, which are oft called judgments . Or rather,

2. Thy threatenings denounced against and punishments inflicted upon sinners.

Are far above out of his sight either,

1. He doth not feel them; thou removest them far from him; which indulgence of thine is the cause of his insolency. Or rather,

2. He doth not discern, nor regard, nor fear them, nor think of them, but goes on securely and resolvedly in his wicked courses. He hath not so much faith nor reason as to apprehend or consider them, but, like a brute beast, looks only downward to the earth, and minds not things above him. And thus it seems best to agree with the foregoing and following clauses. His devices succeed, and therefore he neither fears God’ s judgments, nor the power of his enemies, but fancies his happiness to be unchangeable, as it follows, Psa 10:6 .

He puffeth at them i.e. he despiseth them, being confident that he can blow them away with a breath. This is a gesture of contempt or disdain, both in Scripture, as Psa 12:5 Mal 1:13 , and in other authors, as in Plautus; where one speaks thus to a proud and bragging captain, Thou hast blown away whole legions with thy breath, as leaves are blown away by a wind .

Haydock: Psa 10:5 - Heaven // The poor man

Heaven. This is the source of my confidence. (Calmet) ---

The admirable mother of the Machabees suggested this consoling motive, (Berthier) to strengthen her youngest son, 2 Machabees vii. 28. Heaven is the temple of the Lord, (Haydock) though the tabernacle may be so styled here. See Psalm x. 8. (Calmet) ---

The poor man is not in Hebrew but it is chiefly of him that the psalmist speaks; (Berthier) and the Septuagint and Arabic (Calmet) seem to (Haydock) have read it. Eliphaz remarks, that God does not disregard human affairs, as the wicked supposed, Job xxii. 12. (Calmet) ---

If his eyes seem to be shut, his providence watcheth. (Worthington)

Gill: Psa 10:5 - His ways are always grievous // thy judgments are far above, out of his sight // as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them

His ways are always grievous,.... To God and to his people; or, "his ways cause terror" ^a, so Aben Ezra; make men fear; as antichrist has made the whole world tremble at him, Rev 13:4; or, "his ways are defiled", as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin render it; for to him is nothing pure, his mind and conscience being defiled, Tit 1:15; or, "his ways always remain" ^b; they are always the same, there is no change in them for the better: or they "prosper" ^c as Jarchi interprets it; and this is sometimes stumbling to the saints, Jer 12:1;

thy judgments are far above, out of his sight: meaning either the laws, statutes, and commandments of God, which are not taken notice of by him; but his own decrees or orders are set in the room of them; or the examples of punishment inflicted on wicked men, as on the old world, on Sodom and Gomorrah, the Egyptians, and other nations; these are not regarded, when they should be a terror to him;

as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them; who are the poor saints, and are looked upon by antichrist as feeble creatures, and all their efforts against him and his kingdom are treated with contempt: he blows upon them, and suggests that he can cause them to fall with the breath of his mouth, or strike them down with a straw or a feather; see Psa 12:6.